The technical explanation makes sense to me, but there's some sweet irony in creating simulated, agentic beings via complex, deterministic processes, said being

The technical explanation makes sense to me, but there's some sweet irony in creating simulated, agentic beings via complex, deterministic processes, said beings starting to see the world through the lens of fictional agentic beings as the explanation for complex deterministic processes (even if tongue-in-cheek), and the creators freaking out about it.